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Re: Technic Parallel-Motor Assembly Question
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lugnet.technic
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Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:56:01 GMT
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> I understand totally! The problem you've got is reducing friction. The
> un-geared motors are worse, because your speed reduction train will inevitably
> have much more friction than the reduction box Lego put in the geared motors. I
> ended up also lubricating the reduction train (with margarine!). Connecting so
> many together will also introduce a lot more friction, as you'll need a fairly
> large number of gears to do it.
Perhaps one motor at each end of an axel. That would make three or
four pairs with less gears.
Something like this:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=50534
[extremle quick and dirty pic to show what I mean]
Be sure to connect all the wires correctly so that they actually work
with each other and not against ,)
Connecting something to one of the gears in the picture above would
get a lot of power. I think.
> I found that 2 motors from 1 battery box did increase torque, though not by
> heaps. But there's nothing stopping you connecting multiple battery boxes in
> parallel too - just gotta be careful you always switch them on & off together!
I found during my Hercules building that three oldstyle 9V motors was
all that my powerbox could handle. With four motors it shut down.
Probably due to the thermal switch in the powerbox.
To overcome the danger of switching some powerbox on in the wrong
direction just use a polarity switch :)
/Tobbe
http://www.arnesson.nu/lotek/
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